Jose R. Rodriguez

Jose R. Rodriguez (1 March 1948-) was a member of the Texas Senate (D-29) from January 2011, succeeding Eliot Shapleigh.

Biography
Jose R. Rodriguez was born in Alice, Jim Wells County, Texas in 1948, and he worked alongside his Mexican migrant labor parents to support a family of nine. He worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and served as El Paso County Attorney for 17 years before being elected to the State Senate in 2010. In August 2019, after a white supremacist terrorist attack in El Paso, Rodriguez called out Donald Trump for motivating the massacre with his hate speech against people of color.